Written by Kevin J Foulger.
My late grandfather, George E Foulger told me many stories about World War 2. He died in 1992 in Canterbury, Kent, UK, but as I remembered him telling me about the war I thought I would add his stories. His wife was the late Kathleen Foulger.
George and his mother were no strangers to action. During the air raids of the First World War, His mother, Charlotte Foulger (maiden name, Parish) used to walk the streets. As I remember her saying, 鈥淚 had George as a baby and used to walk the streets.鈥 I was under the impression from the conversation with Charlotte that there were no air raid shelters. On one occasion, Charlotte saw a Zeppelin brought down over Norwood, London. George鈥檚 father, Harry Foulger worked on the railways as a clerk. Both survived the two world wars.
Sgt George E Foulger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A6006818
George and his team: RAF Squadron 1, Flight A, Squad 3. Blackpool, November 1940
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8936625
George also told me about Stanley the Heroic Hampden Pilot who married into the family when he marryied Primrose Foulger.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8934997
My mother, Kay Foulger has added some stories of her own experiences during the war. These stories are:
I Never Knew until I Saw it on the 大象传媒 WW2 Website, and I was Surprised.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A9028479
War Brings Early Marriage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8138379
Gas Masks Were No Mickey Mouse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8138540.
RAF squad 165
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8501988
Secret Message sent by Him
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8923340
Who is Daddy?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8717123
From War to Peace in Great Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A8919859
In the story War Brings Early Marriage by Kay Foulger (mentioned above) my mother's father (William Tom Sparkes) was based at RAF Shawbury, as was my father's father (George E Foulger). We think that they were both based at Shawbury at the same time.
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